Category Archives: College
Tonight (3/24): Fight night in Olympia
If you’ve parked your car in just about any lot in Olympia over the last couple weeks, you’ve either pulled a flyer off your windshield or seen a discarded one on the ground for tonight’s Northwest Fight Challenge XIII -Annihilation! Brought to you by the Academy of Brian Johnson, there will be 10+ MMA fights on the card at the former Apex Carting facility in Tumwater. Tickets are $25 or $50 for VIP, doors open at 6:00 PM and fighting starts at 7:00.
The Saint Martin’s baseball team continues it’s series with Northwest Nazarene today at The SMU baseball field. The two teams split yesterday’s doubleheader and will play another two today starting at noon. Capital grad Tommy Deboer will get the start in game one for the Saints.
Olympia hosts Shelton in a 4A Narrows League game at Ingersoll Stadium at 7:00 PM. Bring yourself a chair and a blanket and enjoy front row seating on the track.
Across town at South Sound Stadium, Timberline hosts Tumwater in a non-league game at 1:00 PM. The feel of tin on your bottom will make you long for dry rot and a closed grandstand and your own camp chair on the track.
Slideshow: Saint Martin’s 8, Northwest Nazarene 1
Photos from game one of Saint Martin’s 8-1 victory over Northwest Nazarene. Again, I’m still figuring out how to use my new lens so these pictures are a bit rough.
Friday scoreboard: Saints split doubleheader
College baseball
Saint Martin’s 8, Northwest Nazarene 1
Northwest Nazarene 6, Saint Martin’s 5 – More from SMUSaints.com
Senior Nate O’Bryan pitched a complete game four hitter and Chandler Tracy hit a three run homerun to highlight a five run third inning to lead Saint Martin’s to an 8-1 win in game one. Zach Leonard went 3-for-5 and Travis Jones added two hits for the Saints in the game.
In game two, the Saints took a 5-1 lead into the seventh inning but River Ridge’s Jon Matos drove in two runs that proved to be the game winner for Northwest Nazarene. Kaleb Wilson pitched five strong innings giving up just one run, Tracey went 3-for-4 and Bobby Twedt and Jones added two hits for the Saints.
High school baseball
North Thurston 3, Aberdeen 2
Black Hills 1, Centralia 0
W.F. West 11, Tumwater 0
High school fastpitch
Olympia 16, Shelton 0
Tumwater 7, W.F. West 6 – 8 innings
Olympia’s Nikki Schroeder went 2-for-3 with four RBI and pitched a complete game shutout giving up just four hits and striking out five Shelton batters. Gabby Braniff and Alexis Sanderlin each had three RBI for the Bears.
Tumwater scored a run in the eighth inning to beat W.F. west, 7-6. The T-Birds took a 6-4 lead into the top of the seventh but the Bearcats scored two to tie the game before the T-Birds redeemed themselves in extra innings.
Boys soccer
North Thurston 0, Capital 0
Today (3/23): Saints baseball, Cougars versus Rams
It seems like it’s been forever since Saint Martin’s played a baseball game in town, but they are back today at SMU Field with great weather for today’s doubleheader against Northwest Nazarene.
The Saints come into the game at 7-19 overall and 3-5 in the GNAC. After a 3-1 start in conference they dropped a pair of doubleheaders at Central Washington and are now in third place. The Crusaders are 13-9 overall and 2-4 in the GNAC and are fourth in the conference. River Ridge alum Jon Matos is hitting .203 with one homerun for NNU. First pitch is at 1:00 PM today.
The North Thurston and Capital boys soccer teams each notched league victories on Thursday night and will square off tonight in a non-league tilt at South Sound Stadium. Nick Salazar has scored two straight game winning goals for the Rams and Matteo Nartempi has scored three goals in his past two games. First kick is at 7:00 PM.
In high school baseball action, Tumwater hosts W.F. West at 4:30 PM and there are probably other makeup games scheduled that I have not seen on schedules yet.
Today (3/21): Looking good
Blue skies out my window and the weather report says nothing of rain. Let’s play some ball.
Lots of rescheduled baseball and fastpitch games today including another community college baseball doubleheader at the RAC. And Olympia plays the lone boys soccer game in town tonight. Bring your chair to Ingersoll Stadium and sit right next to the field while the stands are closed.
High school baseball
W.F. West @ River Ridge – 4:30 PM
Shelton @ Olympia – 4:00 PM
Mark Morris @ Tumwater – 4:00 PM
Aberdeen @ Black Hills – 4:00 PM
High school fastpitch
River Ridge @ Black Hills – 4:30 PM
Mt. Tahoma @ Olympia – 4:00 PM
Boys soccer
Stadium @ Olympia – 7:00 PM
College baseball
Olympic College vs. Clackamas Community College @ RAC – 4:00 PM
Today (3/20): play ball?
One day after the first passable day of the spring, the weather is once again wreaking havoc with the schedule. Today and Wednesday’s scheduled doubleheaders between Saint Martin’s and Northwest Nazarene’s softball teams have already been cancelled and I’d describe these high school baseball and fastpitch games as questionable to doubtful…
High school baseball
Centralia @ North Thurston – 4:30 PM – Postponed to Saturday
Bonney Lake @ Timberline – 4:00 PM
High school fastpitch
Tumwater @ River Ridge – 4:00 PM
North Thurston @ Black Hills – 4:30 PM
The weather won’t stop these 2A EvCo soccer games though…
Aberdeen @ River Ridge – 7:00 PM
W.F. West @ Tumwater – 7:00 PM
Sunday scoreboard: Oly Rollers and Saints softball crush it
College softball
Saint Martin’s 8, Simon Fraser 2
Saint Martin’s 4, Simon Fraser 2 – More from SMUSaints.com
Saint Martin’s took three out of four games in Burnaby over the weekend to take over control of second place in the GNAC behind Montana State-Billings. On Sunday, the Saints shutdown the Simon Fraser bats with Sam Munger and Taylor Bakos both pitching complete games giving up just two runs apiece. Tiffany Griffiths, Joslyn Eugenio and Morgan Klemm each went 4-for-7 in Sunday’s doubleheader for the Saints. Saint Martin’s is now 12-8 overall and 10-5 in the GNAC.
Roller derby
Oly Rollers Costa Nostra Donnas 169, Jet City Rollergirls Bombers 66
Oly Rollers Bella Donnas 46, Dockyard Derby Dames Femme Fiannas 24
College baseball
Central Washington 9, Saint Martin’s 6
Central Washington 19, Saint Martin’s 12 – More from SMUSaints.com
With two wins on Sunday, Central Washington completed the series sweep of Saint Martin’s dropping the Saints to 7-19 overall and 3-5 in the GNAC. LF Adam Hudspeth went 2-for-3 with a home run and RF Chandler Tracy added three hits for the Saints in game one. In game two, the Wildcats put up ten runs in the fourth inning including seven runs off of Saints reliever Josh Moss without recording an out. 2B Mario Sanelli went 2-for-5 with six RBI in game two.
Tonight (3/14): baseball on turf
If your team doesn’t have a turf field, don’t expect to play today. But the Regional Athletic Complex does have a nice turf baseball field and it is getting a workout right now. And not just from local teams.
Today, Olympic College plays a doubleheader against Lower Columbia College starting at 3:00 PM. This is a makeup of a doubleheader that was rained out at Story Field in Longview last week. This is Olympic College’s second third doubleheader that has been moved to the RAC. The Rangers (OC) are 4-4 this season and the Red Devils 1-1.
And just down the road, Bucknell (Skyhawks) Park has a turf field, albeit with a very short porch. Northwest Christian is taking advantage of that park today when they play Tacoma Baptist at 4:00 PM. The Navigators are 1-0 after a Monday forfeit by Oakville.
UPDATE: Olympia’s fastpitch team takes on Curtis today at the RAC. First pitch is scheduled for 3:45. Turf!
Tuesday scoreboard: Saints roughed up, Blazers beat Hawks, T-Birds and Rams win
College baseball
Concordia 12, Saint Martin’s 5 – More from CascadeConference.org
Concordia jumped out to a 8-0 lead through five innings in a non-conference game in Portland on Tuesday afternoon and never looked back knocking off Saint Martin’s 12-5. Adam Hudspeth, Bobby Twedt and Travis Jones each had two hits for the Saints. Concordia’s Jared Young went 2-for-4 with four RBI and Timberline graduate Ben Talbot drove in a run for the Cavaliers.
College softball
Corban vs. Saint Martin’s – Canceled
Boys soccer
North Thurston 1, Aberdeen 1 – North Thurston wins 6-5 in shootout
Timberline 2, River Ridge 1
Tumwater 3, Centralia 1
Decatur 2, Capital 1
W.F. West 3, Black Hills 1
Timberline and River Ridge were scoreless until the 51st minute when Alec Davies scored the first goal for the Blazers. The Hawks got the equalizer three minutes later from Augustin Arriaga before Casey French scored the game-winner for the Blazers with less than two minutes remaining. The Blazers are now 2-0 overall. North Thurston got a goal from David Gregg in the 50th minute and took their second straight game to the shootout this time beating Aberdeen 6-5. The Rams are 1-1 overall and 1-0 in the 2A EvCo. Tumwater’s Kevin Weyand scored twice in their 3-1 win over Centralia. Nathaniel Gunderson also scored a goal in the 50th minute for the T-Birds.
Tonight (3/13): spring sports are a go
STOP THE PRESSES: The University of Washington plays in the NIT tonight! Just kidding. Move on.
The spring sports season gets going in earnest tonight and it looks like even this snow won’t stop the fun. Here is the schedule in town as far as I can tell. Of course, all softball and baseball games could easily be canceled…
College softball
Corban University @ Saint Martin’s – doubleheader – 2:00 PM
High school soccer
Aberdeen @ North Thurston – 5:00 PM
Decatur @ Capital – 7:00 PM
Centralia @ Tumwater – 7:00 PM
High school baseball
Tumwater @ North Thurston – 4:30 PM
Centralia @ River Ridge – 4:30 PM
High school fastpitch
River Ridge @ Black Hills – 4:30 PM
Tumwater @ North Thurston – 4:30 PM
Oly Sports 